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Enrollment
1,072
Elementary
DISTRICT 691 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·COBB COUNTY·NCES 130129000535
East Side Elementary School
3850 Roswell Rd, Marietta, GA 30062 · (770) 578-7200 · Cobb County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL1,072 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 85% of Georgia public elementary schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- C+Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Georgia public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
15.1:1
71 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.0:1 · STATE 13.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
9%
93 students
DISTRICT 56% · STATE 74%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 4 | 0% |
| Kindergarten | 132 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 141 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 188 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 191 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 197 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 219 | 20% |
This year's kindergarten class (132) is 40% smaller than its 5th grade class (219).
Student demographics
61%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 73% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedEnglish Language Arts
74.7%
GA avg 40.1% . -1.7pp since 2021
Math
81.0%
GA avg 44.6% . +3.5pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 75 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 81 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Georgia schools, those numbers are about 40 and 45. Reading and writing scores are down about 2 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 3 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 74.7% | 81.0% |
| 2023-24 | 76.6% | 82.7% |
| 2022-23 | 72.9% | 78.3% |
| 2021-22 | 76.4% | 77.5% |
% Proficient or Distinguished, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Georgia Milestones. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
77.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
72.8%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+4.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 77% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 73% typical for Georgia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Georgia's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like East Side Elementary School
East Side Elementary School's state test result (77.4% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| East Side Elementary School this school | 1,072 | 8.7% | 77.4% |
| Sope Creek Elementary School Marietta | 1,104 | 9.1% | 78.4% |
| Vickery Creek Elementary School Cumming | 982 | 6.9% | 67.8% |
| Matt Elementary School Cumming | 1,171 | 19.1% | 63.0% |
| Austin Elementary School Dunwoody | 803 | 4.7% | 83.9% |
| Murdock Elementary School Marietta | 847 | 11.5% | 78.7% |
Matched among Georgia elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where East Side Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Cobb County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 77.4% | #43 of 1,208 | #9 of 72 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 81.0% | #41 of 1,215 ▼ 13 | #8 of 72 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 74.7% | #40 of 1,215 ▲ 2 | #8 of 72 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +0.9pp | #684 of 1,183 | #31 of 72 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,072 | #56 of 1,324 | #4 of 78 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.1:1 | #1,118 of 1,301 | #76 of 77 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 60.6% | #458 of 1,301 | #37 of 77 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 8.7% | #1,294 of 1,312 | #76 of 78 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -16.2% | #329 of 854 | #24 of 57 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
1,072
-71 (-6%) vs 2020
+40% since 1990-91, when it was 765
Student : Teacher
15.1:1
was 14.5:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 1,072 | 71 | 15.1:1 | 9% (93) |
| 2023-24 | 1,066 | 74.1 | 14.4:1 | 10% (107) |
| 2022-23 | 1,112 | 77.1 | 14.4:1 | 5% (51) |
| 2020-21 | 1,143 | 79 | 14.5:1 | 4% (43) |
| 2017-18 | 1,279 | 76 | 16.8:1 | 3% (42) |
| 2015-16 | 1,253 | 71 | 17.6:1 | 6% (73) |
| 2010-11 | 1,036 | 65 | 15.9:1 | 6% (65) |
| 2000-01 | 759 | 52 | 14.6:1 | 1% (11) |
| 1990-91 | 765 | 48 | 15.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for East Side Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 16% (1,279 to 1,072); teachers down 7% (76 to 71).
About East Side Elementary School
East Side Elementary School is an elementary school with a street address in Marietta, Georgia. Enrollment is 1,072 students in 2024-25, and the school serves pre-K through 5. The average for elementary schools in Georgia is about 605 students, so this school is 77% bigger than average.
District-wide, Cobb County has 110 schools and 105,738 students.
East Side Elementary School's enrollment is 56% White. The next largest groups are 27% Asian, 8% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, and 4% Black. The chance that two students picked at random at East Side Elementary School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 61%.
A ratio of 15.1:1 comes from the school's 71 full-time-equivalent teachers. The 13.3:1 average for elementary schools in Georgia is lower than this school's figure. The lunch program counts 9% of students at East Side Elementary School as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. Among public schools in Cobb County, the average eligibility rate is 53%.
The allk12 Grade for East Side Elementary School is A. Compared with Georgia public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 85% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate on state tests with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. For East Side Elementary School, the prediction is 72.8% and the result is 77.4%.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Cobb County show that median household income is about $102,738, 51% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 6% of people live in poverty. Federal data list 129 public schools in Cobb County, with a combined enrollment of about 116,609.
The nearest public school is Walton High School, at about 0.9 miles. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. On state test proficiency, East Side Elementary School ranks 6th in a group of 9 nearby schools.
The NCES locale for East Side Elementary School is Suburb: Large, which covers schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
East Side Elementary School saw enrollment fall 6% between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
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Cobb County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
775,208
Census ACS
Median income
$102,738
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
51%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
129
116,609 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Cobb County
- Campbell High SchoolHigh · 3,085 students
- Osborne High SchoolHigh · 2,790 students
- Walton High SchoolHigh · 2,705 students
- Pebblebrook High SchoolHigh · 2,574 students
- North Cobb High SchoolHigh · 2,463 students
- Wheeler High SchoolHigh · 2,401 students
Other schools in Marietta
- Osborne High SchoolHigh · 2,790 students
- Walton High SchoolHigh · 2,705 students
- Marietta High SchoolHigh · 2,526 students
- Wheeler High SchoolHigh · 2,401 students
- Lassiter High SchoolHigh · 2,005 students
- Pope High SchoolHigh · 1,793 students
Other East Side Elementary schools
12 other US public schools in 9 states are named East Side Elementary. East Side Elementary School is the largest of the 13.
- East Side Elementary SchoolJACKSONVILLE, TX · 623 students
- EAST SIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLMAGNOLIA, AR · 570 students
- East Side Elementary SchoolChattanooga, TN · 553 students
- East Side ElementaryElizabethton, TN · 465 students
- East Side Elementary SchoolMc Leansboro, IL · 384 students
Nearby schools
- Walton High School0.9 mi · 2,705
- Dodgen Middle School1.1 mi · 1,178
- Mount Bethel Elementary School1.3 mi · 898
- Dickerson Middle School1.3 mi · 1,225
- Timber Ridge Elementary School2.3 mi · 529
- Eastvalley Elementary School2.4 mi · 679
Frequently asked questions
About East Side Elementary SchoolHow many students attend East Side Elementary School?
East Side Elementary School enrolls approximately 1,072 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does East Side Elementary School serve?
East Side Elementary School serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at East Side Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at East Side Elementary School is approximately 15.1:1 (71 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at East Side Elementary School?
At East Side Elementary School, the student body is approximately 56% White, 8% Hispanic, 4% Black, 27% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees East Side Elementary School?
East Side Elementary School is overseen by Cobb County in Cobb County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.